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Letters to the Editor, for March 19

We’ve had more verbal garbage from the Niagara Falls council about backyard recreational fires. They’re pandering to a very small group of people, and providing an incredible example of political posturing and hypocrisy.

Recreational backyard fires are seasonal and for a few hours once or twice a week. Restaurant drive-throughs, on the other hand, are generally 24-7 and pump far more harmful emissions into the air than a small campfire. If council was serious about helping people with respiratory problems it would ban drive-throughs as well as recreational fires. Bunch of pandering hypocrites.

Rene Landry

Niagara Falls

OUR GOVERNMENT DOESN'T CARE

Hey Niagara, have you felt it? Have you seen it? It’s in West Lincoln and Wainfleet. It’s real. It’s a tension and negativity that grows as the wind farm project takes over more and more of our landscape and our lives.

The topic of conversation in West Lincoln is: ‘Those things are huge, and there are so many.’

‘Have you seen the size of the transmissions poles and how close they are to the road?’

‘Have you noticed how they are placed so we have a blind spot at the end of the driveway?’

‘Have you seen the damage to my road?’

‘My road is closed to traffic and I need to drive around daily to get to work.’

‘My family is severely impacted and there is no help for us.’

‘Have you seen how many trees have been sacrificed for the transmission lines?’

If you have not experienced or noticed any of this concern and anxiety, you are one of the fortunate ones.

Be thankful, but please do not forget many Niagara residents are affected by this project.

We did not ask for this imposition on our rural landscape. We did not ask to live in a construction zone. We did not ask to become an industrialized rural community.

We did not ask to have our lives changed forever by a flawed government policy.

Please support and encourage us, as we have to live with decisions made by a government that has no consideration for its citizens.

Nellie DeHaan

Smithville

BASIC INCOME IS NOT THE ANSWER

A basic income is not the answer to solving poverty. Instead of spending the money on test projects, the government should spend the money creating more jobs to minimize unemployment, and supporting small businesses.

Citizens in poverty just want an opportunity to work. When more work is generated, not only do problems fix themselves but society becomes stronger.